My greatgrandmom (my mom's grandmom) always told us to call her Grrr because "great grammy" was too long to say. We really just called her grammy. But we called my dad's mom grammy too, so we started calling her "regular grammy" (as opposed to great grammy).

My nephew calls my brother-in-law's parents ye ye and nai nai, but that's not all that unusual if you're Chinese.

That's similar to what I call my paternal grandma. I call maternal grandparents "ah goong" (grandpa) and "ah poo" (grandma.) I love that Chinese has different names for maternal/paternal grandparents though because it made learning how I was related to either set of grandparents a lot easier as a child.

My partner called his (ex) step-grandmother "plastic grandma" (she had a lot of plastic surgery) and his other maternal grandmother "crazy grandma" (...because she kind of went batty.)

My dad's parents were Nana and Pop-Pop. Well, Nana is still Nana. She turned 91 last weekend.My mom's parents were Grandma and Grand-dad. My brother refers to my parents as "Meemaw" and "Peepaw" to his cats. My parents cat sit for them a lot, and my brother will say "You're gonna go stay with Meemaw and Peepaw." I believe my mom said it's from True Blood (our cable ain't that fancy for such shows). I kind of hope it doesn't stick.

One of my favorites ever was my ex-bf called his mom's mom Grammy-J. Practical, yet hip. A book I read had Momoo and Dadoo. The family in the book was Indian. I really like this option, though I am in no way Indian, but when I was little I used to call my dad Dadoo cause I thought it was funny, so I think he should be Dadoo to my kids.

My maternal grandmother is Anyam -- which I always thought was Hungarian for "grandmother", but I just looked it up and I guess it just means "mother." My maternal grandfather is Pere, French for "father". So that's all kind of confusing, but I guess nobody expected a kid to be able to say "nagyanyam" and "grand-pere."

I have a Nanny Ceil, Pop Pop Frank, Grammie Annie, and Grandpa Rudy....none of them are particularly weird, but they certainly cover the spectrum of grandparent names.

I have an aunt everyone calls Dishy. Her real name is Trish, but my little cousin couldn't say Aunt Trish when she was little so now she will always be Dishy. I have a feeling my sister will become some weird family inside joke name...her name's Olivia and that's going to be hard for little neices or nephews to say! When she was little she'd tell people her name was "Odidida".

I guess everyone (except my late Grammy) will go by those with the future kiddo, because nobody has claimed anything like those yet. Unless my partner patches things up with their parents and they're normal, there's no "Grandma" in kiddo's life at all, ha!

My mom will be Mimi and my stepdad will be Grandpa [last name]. The lone simple.My dad will be Pop Pop and my stepmom will be Nonna. Which might be confusing with Nana. But oh well?

When I was younger and my grandfather married his wife, my mom offered "GraMiki" as an alternative for calling her by her name, Miki. This felt weird to me because it didn't come straight from her and I've never referred to step-parents by anything other than their name (my mom also just calls her "Miki" and not "Mom" so like???). Soooo yeah. That didn't happen. Might happen for kiddo.

Kiddo will have a lot of grandparent names to track, ha.

ETA: Sorry for necroing an old-ass thread but the forum is dying anyway so like. I don't know.

I laughed till I cried with a few of these, mostly because I have had a major struggle in my own family. My mother insists on being called Big Mama and wants my Dad called Big Daddy. These names conjure up all sort of weird images for me and my kids are super confused by these names and when we ask them to hug Big Mama they come to hug me etc. Anyway I have been happy that Big Daddy has mostly become Big Papa which is much more comfortable for me. My own grandparents were "Papa and Peaches" and "Grandma and Grandpa".